Updated at 12.35 pm
GAZA: Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Associated Press said.
The news agency said photographer Emilio Morenatti was getting into a vehicle outside his home in Gaza City when four gunmen seized him.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Morenatti has covered numerous conflicts around the world, including in Afghanistan.
Kidnappings of Westerners in the Palestinian territories, which have been plunged into an unprecedented financial and political crisis since the Hamas movement formed a government in March, have increased over the past few months.
In August, two journalists working for the US-based Fox News television network spent 13 days in captivity after being kidnapped by a previously unknown group, the Holy Jihad Brigades.
American Steve Centanni and his freelance cameraman, New Zealander Olaf Wiig, were released on August 27.
They said they had been forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam.
